How to track with SEOMOZ a website in several language
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Hi,
We have a customer with a website in EN, FR and ES. They used Joomfish, so each language is in a subdirectory :
sitename/en
sitename/fr
sitename/es
and they want their website to be well placed on the web for all that languages and countries:
English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. It is a website for specific affiliation, that's why there is no barriers.
What I need to do to use the best way SEOmoz. For the moment I created one campaign following Google US, google Germany and Google France. To go deeper, I would need to create different campaigns in my account?
And also, your robot will be able to recognize the different subdirectories and languages?
And to improve the SEO of this website, it wouldn't be better to have 3 domains name, one for each country?
Thanks a lot in advance for your answer,
Anne
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Pleasure.
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Yes that's it. Thanks a lot
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Hey Anne
There was a discussion about this a while back:
http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/29063/multilanguage-multicountry-strategy
The general consensus was that there is no perfect way from an SEO perspective at the moment to run a multi language site and that a single domain per country is a better way to go forwards.
If you are going to tackle this you will need to set up new sites for all but the primary language and then 301 redirect the additional language pages on the existing site to the new site. If it's joomla and everything is in a /dir and the new site maintains the same page names this should be easy enough with some mod rewrite wizadry in your htaccess and you should be able to write a single rewrite rule for each language to the new site.
Maybe some canonical URLs on the new sites if easy to implement as well to make sure there is no confusion about who is the owner of the content but the 301's should take care of that with time.
You can then effectively target each language / territory with one site and monitor each site as a seperate campaign.
Hope it helps.
Marcus
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